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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Electric Cars in 2010?
It's become something of a cliché during this decade to point out that anyone who grew up watching The Jetsons expected by now we'd all be driving hovercraft cars whizzing through the air. But the future is finally, in a way, here. It may not fly, but the electric car is definitely in that futuristic vein Baby Boomers and Generation Xers expected of the 21st century.

Saturday, November 28, 2009
Ralph Nader On the True Meaning of Freedom
(3 comments) Excellent video....

Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina?
"At this point you have to wonder what Obama's attachment to Summers and Geithner is."

Friday, November 20, 2009
A Taste of the Truly Weird: Bob Dylan Sings Christmas Carols
(11 comments) And sounding more like Tom Waits every day....

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Noam Chomsky: Amnesty International Annual Lecture 2009
Hopes and Prospects, regrettably, are not well aligned, even closely. The task is to bring them to closer alignment. Presumably that was the intent of the Nobel Peace Prize committee a few weeks ago. Their choice elicited much surprise and sometimes scorn. In defense of the committee, we might say that the achievement of doing nothing to advance peace places Obama on a considerably higher moral plane...

Monday, November 16, 2009
49 Million Americans Going Hungry
According to a new government report, the number of Americans who lack adequate, consistent access to food rose to a new high of 49 million last year. Especially discouraging is the number of children who live in households with low food security, which rose from 12 million to 17 million in just over a year.

Saturday, November 14, 2009
Watch Jon Stewart Throw Up and Become Psychotic While Watching Sean Hannity's Show
(2 comments) Classic.

Saturday, November 14, 2009
Top 8 Programs That Can Make Your Computer Run Faster
It's a common problem among computer users: after a few months, our computers become weighed down by programs and all sorts of other junk, and inevitably become sluggish. For the less tech-savvy users, this may induce thoughts like “Why is my computer so terrible?” or “I guess I could always upgrade this" what-cha-ma-callit RAM thing”.

Friday, November 13, 2009
Obama Eyes Domestic Spending Freeze
(1 comments) But we apparently do have the money to give to banks and spend on wars...

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
70 Percent of Young Americans Are Unfit for Military Duty
Are America's youth too fat, dumb or dishonest to defend the nation against its enemies? The latest Army statistics show a stunning 70 percent of military-age youth are ineligible to join the military because they are overweight, can't pass entrance exams, have dropped out of high school or had run-ins with the law.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
"A World of Change in 287 Days" (?)
He seems serious...

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Go, Arianna! "What Would Candidate Obama Think of President Obama?"
(6 comments) How did the candidate who got into the race because he'd decided that "the core leadership had turned rotten" and that "the people were getting hosed" become the president who has decided that the American people can only have as much change as Olympia Snowe will allow?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Obama Administration Helps House Democrat Gut Post-Enron Reforms
With the White House's blessing, a House panel voted Tuesday to water down a key post-Enron measure designed to protect investors. In a voice vote, members of the House Financial Services Committee agreed to permanently exempt from a provision of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act all publicly traded companies with market values less than $75 million -- which amounts to more than half of all public companies.

Monday, November 2, 2009
Democrats' Quiet Changes Pile Up
While President Barack Obama still faces stiff headwinds on a range of major legislation on his agenda, he has been signing into law a slew of smaller initiatives that had gathered dust on the Democratic wish list for years.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
400,000 Names on FBI Watch List
(1 comments) Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Nicholas Cage Blames Advisor for Financial Ruin
How could one of Hollywood's highest paid actors find himself owing $6.3 million in back taxes and deep in money troubles? The answer is easy if you believe Nicolas Cage.

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Did LBJ Admit to Knowing About a Plot to Kill JFK, Or Was He Simply Hysterical?
(1 comments) What McHugh claimed to have witnessed next was shocking. "I walked in the toilet, in the powder room, and there he was hiding, with the curtain closed," McHugh recalled. He claimed that LBJ was crying, "They're going to get us all. It's a plot. It's a plot. It's going to get us all.'" According to the General, Johnson "was hysterical, sitting down on the john there alone in this thing."

Saturday, October 31, 2009
NY Times Editorial: "This Dismaying Retreat from Mr. Obama's Passionate Campaign Promises..."
We have had recent reminders of this dismaying retreat from Mr. Obama's passionate campaign promises to make a break with Mr. Bush's abuses of power, a shift that denies justice to the victims of wayward government policies and shields officials from accountability.

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Video: "War and Globalization, the Truth Behind 9/11"
1:56:31 - 3 years ago In this lecture by Michel Chossudovsky, he blows away the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack on America by "Islamic terrorists". Through meticulous research, he has uncovered a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11 attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush Administration.

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Chalmers Johnson's Review of "Democracy, Incorporated..." by Prof. Sheldon Wolin
We now have a new, comprehensive diagnosis of our failings as a democratic polity by one of our most seasoned and respected political philosophers. For well over two generations, Sheldon Wolin taught the history of political philosophy from Plato to the present to Berkeley and Princeton graduate students (including me...)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
U.S. Official Resigns in Protest of Afghanistan War Policy
"I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan," he wrote in the letter. "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end."

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
AP: Troops Already Outnumber Taliban 12-1
There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn't led to anything close to victory.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Joe Lieberman Would Join GOP Filibuster of Health Care Reform
(2 comments) Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, emerged Tuesday afternoon from a meeting with his caucus as the center of attention -- again. On his way in, he told reporters that if a public health insurance option was in the final health care bill, he would join a GOP filibuster to prevent it from getting an up or down vote.

Monday, October 26, 2009
Classic Obama: Give the Impression I Do When I Really Don't
President Obama's "support" of public option reminiscent of Bush's "Blue Sky Initiative", "Healthy Forests", etc... Triangulation at it's finest.

Sunday, October 25, 2009
For Philip Roth Fans: Video Interview With Tina Brown Done Last Week
Not a particularly good interview. But nice to see him talking...

Sunday, October 25, 2009
Polls: Independents Shifting Away From Obama, Democrats
A poll of opinion polls shows Americans' attitudes are changing rapidly. They are less and less thrilled about the country's direction and Congress, according to Tom Bevan, executive editor of national polling aggregator RealClearPolitics. He says independent voters are shifting away from the polices of the Obama administration and Democrats.

Friday, October 23, 2009
Obama's Support of Insurance Industry Position Sapping Momentum from Public-Option Drive
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is just one or two Senate votes shy of having a filibuster-proof majority in favor of a public option for health insurance coverage with a provision allowing states to opt-out, multiple sources say. But Obama's support of the insurance industry position is sapping the momentum from the public-option drive.

Thursday, October 22, 2009
Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now
It's the #1 question I'm constantly asked after people see my movie: "OK -- so now what can I do?!" You want something to do? Well, you've come to the right place! 'Cause I got 15 things you and I can do right now to fight back and try to fix this very broken system. Here they are:

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Obama's Poll Numbers Take a Beating
(1 comments) As President Obama navigates his way through a series of issues as controversial as they are vital, he's getting a yellow flag from the American people. For the first time since Obama took office, fewer than half of Americans agree with the president on issues important to them, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Tuesday. A majority, 51 percent, disagree -- a jump of 10 percentage points since April.

Monday, October 19, 2009
Washington Post: Big financial firms losing power on Capitol Hill
Large banks are on the verge of losing a key legislative battle over the shape of financial reform, an unusual setback that reflects the continued political backlash over their role in creating the financial crisis.

Monday, October 19, 2009
READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States
Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution. More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities.

Friday, October 16, 2009
Stanley McChrystal's Long War
Worse yet, for all of America's time in Afghanistan — for all the money and all the blood — the lack of accomplishment is manifest wherever you go. In Garmsir, there is nothing remotely resembling a modern state that could take over if America and its NATO allies left. Tour the country with a general, and you will see very quickly how vast and forbidding this country is and how paltry the effort has been.

Friday, October 16, 2009
SEC Hires 29-Year-Old Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec For Key Role
For those who've lamented the various links between Goldman Sachs and the financial regulatory system, this certainly isn't good news.

Friday, October 16, 2009
Goldman Sachs' Black Magic, Here's How They Did It
How did Goldman, Sachs & Co. -- saved a year ago by the US taxpayer -- magically make $3 billion in 3 months a year later? This as the US dollar collapses, unemployment soars and foreclosures hit a record?

Friday, October 16, 2009
NY Times: "C.I.A. Is Still Cagey About Oswald Mystery"
(3 comments) Is the Central Intelligence Agency covering up some dark secret about the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.'s behavior.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
BBC: Obama Has Already Decided to Send 45,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
...a report on BBC's Newsnight in the UK that aired Wednesday said the Obama administration has already made the decision to send 45,000 more troops to Afghanistan, which would amount to 5,000 more than Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of forces in Afghanistan, has reportedly asked for.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Chris Hedges on Our Celebrity Culture
Read this brilliant and humorous chapter from Chris Hedges' new book and marvel as the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent makes sense of reality television. Adapted from “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,” available from Nation Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright - 2009.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Chris Hedges: "I Don't Believe in Atheists"
Sam Harris has conflated faith with tribalism. His book is an attack not on faith but on a system of being and believing that is dangerous and incompatible with the open society. He attacks superstition, a belief in magic and the childish notion of an anthropomorphic God that is characteristic of the tribe, of the closed society. He calls this religion. I do not.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Chris Hedges: "The Illusion of Literacy"
You'll have to scroll down just a little bit....

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Goldman Sachs Profit Hits $3 Billion On Trading Gains
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s third-quarter earnings more than tripled from the depths of the financial crisis as income from the company's trading operations offset a drop in its investment banking business.

Thursday, October 15, 2009
Michael Moore & Dylan Ratigan on Government Support of Wall Street Fleecing
MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan and filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on the Today Show this morning to discuss the latest round of massive bonuses that Wall St. is doling out to their executives just a year after the financial industry paralyzed the economy.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Oldest Known Video Footage of Jimi Hendrix
He's right there behind the singer on the left...

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tax Dodger Crackdown Shelved By Obama Administration
In May, President Obama announced a big initiative to raise $210 billion in tax revenue over the next ten years by cracking down on the use of tax havens by U.S. corporations. The Wall Street Journal reports Tuesday that the Obama administration has shelved the proposal in the face of intense pressure from business.

Sunday, October 11, 2009
NY Times: Lobbyists Fight Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs
It's interesting to me how the NY Times always seems to come up with these articles as soon as it's too late to do anything about it....

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages
Lo and behold, the Bible has gotten too liberal, according to a group of conservatives. And it needs a little editing.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Paul Krugman, "The Politics of Spite"
“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to a blog post by a member of the magazine's staff, with the headline “Obama loses! Obama loses!” Rush Limbaugh declared himself “gleeful.” “World Rejects Obama,” gloated the Drudge Report. And so on.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
"The Looming Collapse of the American Empire" by Chris Hedges
(1 comments) At no period in American history has our democracy been in such peril or has the possibility of totalitarianism been as real. Our way of life is over. Our profligate consumption is finished. Our empire is imploding.

Monday, October 5, 2009
Thomas Franks, "Obama and the K Street Set: Whatever Happened to 'Change'?"
"The economy may stink for some, but things are going swimmingly for Democratic insiders," a page-one story in last Sunday's paper asserted.

Sunday, October 4, 2009
SNL Reams Obama For Lack of Accomplishment During First Year In Office
(2 comments) It's starting to catch up with him....

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Vanity Fair Details Secret Meetings Between Government And Goldman Sachs
The latest issue of Vanity Fair has an excerpt form Sorkin's book Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story Of How Wall Street And Washington Fought To Save The Financial System - And Themselves. In it, Sorkin writes that the government tried to arrange a secret deal for Goldman Sachs to buy Wachovia in the weeks following the implosion of Lehman Brothers.

Monday, September 28, 2009
Sand Animation
One of the most amazing things I've ever seen....

Monday, September 28, 2009
The Daily Kos' Goldman Sachs Update
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate." Noam Chomsky

Saturday, September 26, 2009
BBC Documentary on the History of Propaganda
As Edward Bernays said, "The word 'propaganda' had a bad connotation after WWII, so I invented 'public relations'.

Friday, September 25, 2009
Pandemonium in Pittsburgh: G20 Protestors Attacked by Police
Police are throwing canisters spewing smoke after ordering several hundred protesters to stop their march in opposition of the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh.

Thursday, September 24, 2009
"Evolution", a Short Film by Dove
Talk about the image and illusion...

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Are We Now 8 Months Into Bush's Third Term?
It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
FBI Says It Will Investigate Claims of 804 Members of Engineers and Architects for 9/11 Truth
(1 comments) One of the crucial technical disputes in American history, perhaps second only to global warming, is underway. It pits hundreds of government technicians who say the World Trade Center buildings were brought down by airplane impact against hundreds of professional architects and building engineers who insist that the Twin Towers could never have collapsed solely due to the planes...

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Poll Finds Most Voters Mad at Washington, Big Business and the Media
(1 comments) It should come as no surprise after a summer of town halls and tea parties, but a new poll confirms there's a lot of anger at the federal government. The survey done by Rasmussen Reports also shows widespread dissatisfaction with leaders of both major political parties and significant concern about the potential for violence.

Friday, September 18, 2009
Nearly 60% of Americans STILL Believe We Are on the "Wrong Track"
(1 comments) The last time the number was this high, weren't we starting to talk seriously about impeachment?

Friday, September 18, 2009
Noam Chomsky's 8/06/09 UN Address: Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect
(2 comments) Throughout history, there have been a few principles of international affairs that apply quite generally. One is the maxim of Thucydides that the strong do as they wish, while the weak suffer as they must. A corollary is what Ian Brownlie calls "the hegemonial approach to law-making": the voice of the powerful sets precedents.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Volkswagen Introduces Electric Car
With the E-Up, batteries are included, as is the promise that it will be roadworthy and on sale by 2013 — and proliferate by 2020. Martin Winterkorn, VW's chief executive, said the E-Up “very realistically shows how we envision such a Volkswagen with pure electric drive, technically, visually and with regard to size.”

Sunday, September 13, 2009
After Obama
Eight months into it, it now seems pretty clear that the Obama administration is finished. There were some of us -- indeed, many of us, myself included -- who thought there was a possibility that Barack Obama might seize this moment of American crisis, twinned with the complete failure for all to see of the regressive agenda, to become the second coming of Franklin Roosevelt.

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Bill Maher to Obama: "Stand Up For The 70% Of Americans Who Aren't Crazy"
On "Real Time" Friday night, host Bill Maher closed his show with some sharp words for the Obama administration with regards to how they have responded to criticism from figures such as Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
"A New Horizon For the News"
The American news business today finds itself trapped in a grim paradox. Financially, its prospects have never seemed bleaker. By some measures, the first quarter of 2009 was the worst ever for newspapers, with sales plunging $2.6 billion.

Monday, September 7, 2009
Michael Moore Goes for Broke With "Capitalism, A Love Story"
(3 comments) "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." So wrote Thomas Jefferson to a friend in 1816. Now Michael Moore, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 took on the U.S. Army, and the entire military-executive-industrial establishment, brings his latest documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, to the Venice Film Festival.

Thursday, September 3, 2009
Japan's Next First Lady Believes She 'Went to Venus' On a UFO
(2 comments) ...and knew Tom Cruise in a previous life.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Is America Headed for Day of Reckoning? AOL Poll Has Obama with 83% Disapproval Rating, CNN: Indies Disapprove 53-43%
(10 comments) AOL Poll now shows Obama with an 81% disapproval rating, with over 70% saying their opinion of him has worsened since his taking office.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Man Drives Rolls Royce Into Store After His Bed is Delivered Without a Mattress
He made his point...

Saturday, August 29, 2009
How Wall Street's High Tech Advantage is Screwing You
Their software is just a little better than ours...

Thursday, August 27, 2009
"Vaccinations: Deadly Immunity", by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Thomas Frank: "Health Care and the Democratic Soul"
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now the identity of the Democratic Party. By now we know that Democrats can bail out traditional Republican constituencies like Wall Street, but it remains to be seen whether they can enact a convincing version of their own signature issue, health-care reform.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
"Science" Changes It's Mind Once Again: Appendix May Be Useful Organ After All
(1 comments) The body's appendix has long been thought of as nothing more than a worthless evolutionary artifact, good for nothing save a potentially lethal case of inflammation. Now researchers suggest the appendix is a lot more than a useless remnant. Not only was it recently proposed to actually possess a critical function, but scientists now find it appears in nature a lot more often than before thought.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Ah... If the Media Were Only Always Like This: Bill Maher on The Tonight Show
Fearless would describe him, methinks....

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Obama appoints Monsanto fox to guard food safety hen house
(2 comments) Former Monsanto vice president Michael Taylor may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history. Yet he has recently been appointed by Obama to be the U.S. food safety czar. It looks like we have yet another case of the fox guarding the hen house.

Saturday, August 22, 2009
How "The Earth Charter" Is Changing the World
The mission of the Earth Charter Initiative is to promote the transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework that includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Newsweek: "We Are All Hindus Now"
(8 comments) A million-plus Hindus live in the United States, a fraction of the billion who live on Earth. But recent poll data show that conceptually, at least, we are slowly becoming more like Hindus and less like traditional Christians in the ways we think about God, our selves, each other, and eternity.

Monday, August 17, 2009
"Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama" by Chris Hedges
The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama. It kills as brutally and indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as it did under George W. Bush. It steals from the U.S. treasury to enrich the corporate elite as rapaciously. It will not give us universal health care, abolish the Bush secrecy laws, end torture or "extraordinary rendition,"...

Sunday, August 16, 2009
The Logic of Beyonce's Argument Is Really Irrefutable....
(1 comments) I'm convinced...

Saturday, August 15, 2009
How Did it Feel For Dylan to Be a Complete Unknown (In That Jersey Town) Like a Rolling Stone...
(2 comments) Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

Friday, August 14, 2009
Fear for Obama's Safety Grows as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash
(1 comments) Experts who track hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama, especially as the debate over health care intensifies and a pattern of threats emerges.

Sunday, August 9, 2009
Frank Rich: "Is Obama Punking Us?"
(1 comments) "You might wonder whether networks could some day cut out the middlemen "anchors" and just put covert lobbyists and publicists on the air to deliver the news. Actually, that has already happened. The most notorious example was the flock of retired military officers who served as television "news analysts" during the Iraq war while clandestinely lobbying for defense contractors eager to sell their costly wares to the Pentagon."

Sunday, July 26, 2009
Jimi Hendrix's Doctor Agrees He Could Have Been Murdered
A former roadie's claim that rock legend Jimi Hendrix was murdered by a former manager was given some validation by the doctor who attempted to save the guitar virtuoso's life that night. John Bannister says the allegations made in James "Tappy" Wright's book 'Rock Roadie' "sounded plausible because of the volume of wine" found both in and on Hendrix's body.

Sunday, July 26, 2009
Newsweek: "The Recession Is Over" (Except for Unemployment and 1% Growth for Years to Come)
"the data point that means the most to our psychological well-being-unemployment-is likely to keep climbing. The loss of 6.5 million jobs since December 2007 has spurred the sharpest rise in the unemployment rate since the 1930s. As manufacturing jobs move overseas and companies struggle to further reduce costs, unemployment-which stands at 9.5 percent-is likely to rise above 10 percent."

Thursday, July 23, 2009
Jon Stewart Voted "Most Trusted" Newsman
By a 25% margin over Gibson & Couric....

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Watch Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Punch Moon Landing Conspiracist Right in His Puss...
A rare glimpse of old school honor...

Friday, July 17, 2009
Conservative Group Offers to Sell Endorsement for $2M
The American Conservative Union asked FedEx for a check for $2 million to $3 million in return for the group's endorsement in a bitter legislative dispute, then the group's president flipped and sided with UPS after FedEx refused to pay.

Friday, July 17, 2009
Matt Taibbi: The Real Price of Goldman's Giganto-Profits
Equity underwriting boomed during the period as dozens of banks raised money to strengthen capital and repay Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. The business reported record revenue of $736 million.via Article - WSJ.com. So what's wrong with Goldman posting $3.44 billion in second-quarter profits, what's wrong with the company so far earmarking $11.4 billion in compensation for its employees?

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Obama Administration Approves Logging In Largest U.S. Rain Forest
(1 comments) This week, the Obama administration approved the sale of timber in a roadless national forest in Alaska. The Tongass National Forest is a 17 million acre temperate rain forest in southeast Alaska, which is home to both endangered species and native Alaskan tribes. It is the largest temperate rain forest in the United States.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Wall Street Journal: Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free
The Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted of terrorism charges by a U.S. military commission.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Obama Poll Numbers Take Beating In Ohio Over Economy
President Barack Obama's approval rating in Ohio has fallen rapidly in the past months. Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,259 voters in Ohio from June 26 to July 7. The poll found that 49% of voters disapprove of the job Obama is doing, while 44% approve.

Friday, July 3, 2009
Rolling Stone: "How Goldman Sachs Has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression"
(6 comments) The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Confidante: Jackson Triggered His Death By Mixing Pills In Ploy To Avoid Concert Commitment
A close Michael Jackson confidant tells The Daily Beast's Gerald Posner he believes the star triggered his death with a foolhardy plan to void a concert commitment: mixing pills to prompt a minor hospital visit.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Krugman: U.S. Headed for 'Jobless' Recovery
Nobel-Prize winning economist Paul Krugman said the nation is on course for a "prolonged jobless" economic recovery unless the Obama administration steps in with a second round of government stimulus money.

Monday, June 29, 2009
Okay, So Maybe You Don't Believe He Lived Without Eating Food For 250 Years....
(1 comments) ...and maybe you don't speak Russian. But just how long do you think you'd last in that house-on-stilts?

Sunday, June 28, 2009
The Incredible, Tragic and (Maybe Even) True Story of the World's First Water Powered Car
(6 comments) Stan Meyer's Dune Buggy that ran on water. Hydrogen/Oxygen fuel in an ICE motor. On board electrolysis, no hydrogen tanks, no bombs on-board, just water. (1998) It ran 100 miles per gallon!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" Bob Dylan (Live 1965)
It sure was different back then...

Sunday, June 14, 2009
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" Performed by Eric Clapton
(2 comments) Rather unusual...

Saturday, June 6, 2009
Paul Craig Roberts: Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney
America has lost her soul, and so has her president. A despairing country elected a president who promised change.

Saturday, June 6, 2009
"Worst Slide Story"
(1 comments) "Worst Slide Story" A NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL RUNNING AT RIKERS ISLAND

Saturday, June 6, 2009
Submarines Now Account For A Third Of The Cocaine Smuggled Into U.S.
When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke.

Thursday, June 4, 2009
A Glimmer of Economic Hope? Pending Homes Sales Surge in April
The pending home sales index has risen 3.2 percent since April 2008, with the NAR's pending home sales index now at 90.3. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News had expected sales of pending homes to total an increase of one-half of one percent (0.005) or increase to a 4.66-million-unit annual pace in April. Pending homes sales totaled a 4.57-million-unit annual pace in March.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
New Hampshire Man Arrested for 153rd Time
A man has been arrested for the 153rd time, this time after he was accused of punching someone in the face over the weekend. Paul Baldwin, 49, told a judge Monday he plans to plead guilty to the assault, along with trespassing and alcohol charges.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Top 15 Newspaper Sites of 2008
The data is in, and we're ready to declare the top 15 newspaper websites of 2008! It was a hard-fought battle in a year that saw visitors to all newspaper sites rise by 12.1 percent from the year prior. We've ranked the top 15 by average monthly unique visitors, according to Nielsen Online, which is the source of all our data (via Editor & Publisher's monthly reports).

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
"Money For Nothing" w/Mark Knopfler, Sting, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins...
Boy this is good...

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
"Layla", w/Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Stevie Winwood, Mark Knopfler
One for the record books...

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Common Dreams: An Early Call for Obama's Resignation
(6 comments) We expected broken promises. But the gap between the soaring expectations that accompanied Barack Obama's inauguration and his wretched performance is the broadest such chasm in recent historical memory. This guy makes Bill Clinton look like a paragon of integrity and follow-through.

Thursday, May 21, 2009
Recession Hits the US Treasury: First April Budget Deficit in 26 Years
While everyone else has been focused on the banks' stress tests and how much government is spending to bail out troubled "too big to fails," a disturbing trend on the other side of the equation is now emerging: how much (or rather, how little) the U.S. government is receiving in tax revenues.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Cream: White Room- Live (Farewell Concert 1968)
Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker say goodbye with a vengence...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Historic Fossil Discovery Hailed As "Missing Link"
The nearly complete skeleton of a small 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the early evolution of monkeys, apes and humans.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
"My Back Pages" w/Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Roger McGuinn, etc...
(2 comments) At Madison Square Garden for Dylan's 30th Anniversary Salute.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Obama Looking to Strip SEC of Power and Hand Over to the Federal Reserve
(2 comments) The gutting of government oversight continues...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Play That Funky Music, Very Little White Boy....
(1 comments) See, any kid can do it...

Monday, May 18, 2009
New Yorker: Chief Justice Roberts Has Served Interests And Reflected Values Of The GOP. In Every Major Case, He Has Side
His jurisprudence as Chief Justice, Roberts said, would be characterized by "modesty and humility." After four years on the Court, however, Roberts's record is not that of a humble moderate but, rather, that of a doctrinaire conservative. The kind of humility that Roberts favors reflects a view that the Court should almost always defer to the existing power relationships in society.

Sunday, May 17, 2009
"Code Pink" Now Considering Refering to Obama as a "War Criminal", Too
(3 comments) A leader of the antiwar group Code Pink said she now wonders at what point her organization should begin to refer to Mr. Obama as a "war criminal."

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Obama Picks Top Polluter Lawyer To Enforce Environmental Laws
(1 comments) President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation's largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation's environmental laws.

Friday, May 15, 2009
Sony Pictures CEO Doesn't See Anything Good Having Come From the Internet. Period.
At a breakfast cohosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker Thursday, Michael Lynton wasn't just trying for a laugh: He complained the Internet has "created this notion that anyone can have whatever they want at any given time. It's as if the stores on Madison Avenue were open 24 hours a day. They feel entitled.

Thursday, May 14, 2009
Carved Figurine Dating Back 35,000 Years Oldest-Known Sculpture
(1 comments) Scientists have discovered the oldest piece of sculpture ever created - and it depicts a voluptuous 'pin-up' woman. The 35,000-year-old carving shows a woman with enormous

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Naomi Klein and William Greider on Charlie Rose 5/11/09
They talk about the economy, capitalism and the reality of Barack Obama....

Monday, May 11, 2009
Has Bernanke Pulled the Economy Back From the Brink?
(1 comments) Fed chief Ben Bernanke's understanding of financial crises may have kept the country from sliding into another Great Depression. That doesn't mean that he's fixed the credit system, removed the non-performing loans from the banks, or stopped housing prices from crashing.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Young Americans Losing Their Religion: New Research Finds Number Who Claim No Church Has Risen Sharply
(2 comments) Historically, the percentage of Americans who said they had no religious affiliation (pollsters refer to this group as the "nones") has been very small -- hovering between 5 percent and 10 percent. However, Putnam says the percentage of "nones" has now skyrocketed to between 30 percent and 40 percent among younger Americans.

Saturday, May 2, 2009
The Obama Administration is Moving Toward Reviving the Military Commission System for Prosecuting Guant�namo Detainees
(1 comments) Brezinsky said Obama had been "vetted" before he was allowed to be President...

Thursday, April 30, 2009
Every Boy Has the Right to Play the Blues.....
11 year-old Cole plays a C blues jam.

Friday, April 24, 2009
Murray Perahia Plays Moonlight Sonata
Yep, there are people out there who really have got it together....

Thursday, April 23, 2009
Head of the University of Virginia's Department of Psychiatry Pioneering Work on Reincarnation
(1 comments) Ian Stevenson is the former head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, and now is Director of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. He has devoted the last 40 years to the scientific documentation of past life memories of children from all over the world and has over 3000 cases in his files. Many people agree that these cases offer the best evidence for reincarnation...

Thursday, April 23, 2009
Court Upholds Divorce by Text Message
A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message, a newspaper said earlier this month. The man was in Iraq when he sent the message informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives, the daily Arab News reported.

Saturday, April 18, 2009
Norman Mailer on Technology as the Devil's Tool
(4 comments) Norman Mailer's God, not surprisingly, is a great artist, who created mankind and all the plants and other animals, and could reincarnate them according to his whim. But he was not all-powerful. Because there was the Devil-and the Devil had technology. And lately, the Devil seems to be winning...

Saturday, April 18, 2009
Charles Barkley Calls Limbaugh "Unpatriotic" and Hannity & Beck "Idiots"
NBA great Charles Barkley dipped into some political punditry during a Tonight Show appearance on Friday, tearing into conservative talking heads who have rooted for President Obama to fail.

Monday, April 13, 2009
Obama Flies Pizza Chef From St. Louis to White House to Make Dinner for his Family
(4 comments) I guess he's just a man of the people after all...

Friday, April 10, 2009
Almost As Many Americans Under 30 Believe Socialism is Better Than Capitalism as Vice Versa
(3 comments) Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.

Monday, April 6, 2009
Communities Printing Their Own Currency to Keep Cash Flowing
A small but growing number of cash-strapped communities are printing their own money. Borrowing from a Depression-era idea, they are aiming to help consumers make ends meet and support struggling local businesses.

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Newsweek; "The End of Christian America"
(5 comments) The percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. How that statistic explains who we are now-and what, as a nation, we are about to become.

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Exhibit of Paintings by Bob Dylan
Pretty cool stuff...

Monday, March 30, 2009
Noam Chomsky on the Economy and Democracy
Noam Chomsky speaks to Paul Jay on the Obama - Geithner plan. Chomsky says that "they're simply recycling, the Bush-Paulson measures and changing them a little, but essentially the same idea: keep the institutional structure the same, try to kind of pass things up, bribe the banks and investors to help out, but avoid the measures that might get to the heart of the problem."

Monday, March 30, 2009
Man Fired Sawed-Off Into Window After Being Told Menu Was Breakfast-Only
(4 comments) A McDonald's drive-through was shot up early Sunday after a customer was angered that the restaurant had shifted from the lunch menu to the breakfast menu, police said.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Geithner's Public Private Partnership Puts Public Most at Risk
Tim Geithner's at it again, doing somersaults, with hundreds of billions of federal money flying out of his pockets in the process, all to distract us from the more sensible course of action, which is to nationalize the insolvent banks.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
World's Cheapest Car is Launched: Under $2,000
(1 comments) The Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car, has been launched in India. Costing just 100,000 rupees ($1,979; £1,366), the Nano will now go on sale across India next month, with deliveries starting in July. Tata hopes the 10-foot (3-metre) long, five-seater car will be cheap enough to encourage millions of Indians to trade up from their motorcycles.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Full-Length Documentary: "The Obama Deception"
The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Percentage of Americans Who Believe Invading Afghanistan Was a Mistake Up From 6% to 42%
American support for the war in Afghanistan has ebbed to a new low, as attacks on U.S. troops and their allies have hit record levels and commanders are pleading for reinforcements, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows.

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Obama Has Confused Saving the Banks with Saving the Bankers
(1 comments) We get reaction to President Obama's speech from Nobel economics laureate and former World Bank chief economist, Joseph Stiglitz. Stiglitz says the Obama administration has failed to address the structural and regulatory flaws at the heart of the financial crisis that stand in the way of economic recovery.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The Hero's Journey: The World of Joseph Campbell
(2 comments) Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a scholar who achieved legendary status as an explicator of myths, is reverently profiled in this documentary that encompasses his long life and career.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Jim Cramer Admits To Market Manipulation In Interview,Touts Illegal Activity
In light of the current economic crisis, and with the hullabaloo ignited recently by Jon Stewart over the accuracy of CNBC's reporting, we thought it might be useful to revisit this shocking 2006 interview Jim Cramer gave to TheStreet.com's Aaron Task.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Christian Science Monitor: The Coming Evangelical Collapse
We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Bank Bailout Totals $8,500,000,000,000
We thought we would dig out the data to update Bloomberg's calculation of November 2008 that totaled the bank bailouts at $8.5 trillion.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Report: Wall Street Spent $5 Billion For Political Influence
A group called Wall Street Watch is out with a report that finds that "Wall Street investment firms, commercial banks, hedge funds, real estate companies and insurance conglomerates made $1.7 billion in political contributions and spent another $3.4 billion on lobbyists" between 1998 and 2008.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Chomsky: Understanding the Crisis - Markets, the State and Hypocrisy
The state sector is innovative and dynamic. It's true across the board from electronics to pharmaceuticals to the new biology-based industries. The idea is that the public is supposed to pay the costs and take the risks, and ultimately if there is any profit, you hand it over to private tyrannies, corporations. If you had to encapsulate the economy in one sentence, that would be the main theme.

Sunday, March 8, 2009
Sting's NYC Apartment
The King of Pain knows how to hide it....

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Job for School Janitor Receives 700 Applicants
Nearly 700 people have applied for a single job as a school custodian. Perry Local Schools have an open position - full time with benefits - at Edison Junior High School after its afternoon janitor retired. It pays $15 to $16 an hour.

Saturday, March 7, 2009
Obama Administration: Federal judges are "ill-equipped to second-guess the Executive Branch."
The Obama Administration this week released its predecessor's post-9/11 legal memoranda in the name of "transparency," producing another round of feel-good Bush criticism. Anyone interested in President Obama's actual executive-power policies, however, should look at his position on warrantless wiretapping. Dick Cheney must be smiling.

Friday, March 6, 2009
Obama's Dependence on Teleprompter Even Greater than Bush's
(5 comments) Ari Fleischer, a former spokesman for George W. Bush, said while it's entirely a matter of personal style, using a teleprompter at these smaller events has its drawbacks. Bush, Fleischer added, "would use the teleprompter for his major big events, but when he would travel around the country or do events, he would almost always work off of large index cards."

Friday, March 6, 2009
Govt. Anticipating Massive Bank Failure: Senate Moves to Loan FDIC $500 Billion
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is moving to allow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to temporarily borrow as much as $500 billion from the Treasury Department.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Why Isn't Obama Addressing the Banking Crisis?
Interesting column from an unlikely source.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros
The following is an edited and expanded version of an interview with George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management, by Judy Woodruff on Bloomberg TV on April 4.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Revealed: The Headset That Will Mimic All Five Senses and Make the Virtual World as Convincing as Real Life
A virtual reality helmet that recreates the sights, smells, sounds and even tastes of far-flung destinations has been devised by British scientists.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
The 15 Best News Bloopers Of All Time (VIDEO)
You know them, you love them and now they're all in one place. We are not here to judge, but to celebrate. A couple of the people on this video even seem more endearing to us now (Shepard Smith, the cockroach guy) but I think we can all agree that it would be scary to work for Nancy Grace and no one should ever go back to Glenn Beck's office alone.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Woman Calls 911 3 Times Over McNuggets
(1 comments) FORT PIERCE, Fla. (March 3) - Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of McNuggets.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
WSJ: "The Obama Economy" The Right is Learning How to Blame Obama
The Right is learning how to lay the current financial disaster on Obama...

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Obama's Years at Columbia Are a Mystery
(2 comments) Senator Obama's life story, from his humble roots, to his rise to Harvard Law School, to his passion as a community organizer in Chicago, has been at the center of his presidential campaign. But one chapter of the tale remains a blank - his education at Columbia College, a place he rarely speaks about and where few people seem to remember him.

Saturday, February 28, 2009
10 Ways to Build Self-Confidence
Self confidence is the difference between feeling unstoppable and feeling scared out of your wits. Your perception of yourself has an enormous impact on how others perceive you. Perception is reality - the more self confidence you have, the more likely it is you'll succeed.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
David Brooks: Jindal's Response "Disaster For the Republican Party," "Nihilism," "Insane"
JIM LEHRER: Now that, of course, was Gov. Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, making the Republican response. David, how well do you think he did? DAVID BROOKS: Uh, not so well...

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Ramana Maharshi - Abide As The Self
Abide As the Self is a transforming video that takes you on an inner journey into the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and the path of Self-knowledge. Comprehensive film footage of Ramana comes alive, with emphasis on the teachings of Self-Inquiry and its practical application.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Scientists Create Guide to Small Talk in the Stone Age
A "time traveller's phrasebook" that could allow basic communication between modern English speakers and Stone Age cavemen is being compiled by scientists studying the evolution of language.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Social Websites Harm Children's Brains: Chilling Warning to Parents from Top Neuroscientist
I imagine the findings are just as applicable to the Internet in general. It seems that what we've gained in convenience and alternative news sources may be costing us our humaness....

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Democrats Push for a "Truth Commission" on Bush
Democrats Push for a "Truth Commission" on Bush.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Financial Times: Bullion Sales Hit Record in Rush to Safety
Investors are buying record amounts of gold bars and coins, shunning risky assets for the relative safety of bullion amid renewed fears about the health of the global financial system.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
NY Times: Obama's Bailout "Plan Largely Repeats the Bush Administration's..."
Mr. Geithner, who will announce the broad outlines of the plan on Tuesday, successfully fought against more severe limits on executive pay for companies receiving government aid. He resisted those who wanted to dictate how banks would spend their rescue money. And he prevailed over top administration aides who wanted to replace bank executives and wipe out shareholders at institutions receiving aid.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Progressive Magazine: Naomi Klein Interview, February 2009
(2 comments) Current interview by Editor Matthew Rothschild with activist Naomi Klein.

Sunday, February 8, 2009
Inside Barack's Brain
Imagine yourself within the mind of Barack Obama, the first African American president of the United States of America. You are a man who knows how "the system" works.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Karl Rove Subpoenaed By John Conyers: 'Time To Talk'
On Monday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) issued a subpoena to Karl Rove, requiring him to testify regarding his role in the Bush Administration's politicization of the Department of Justice, including the US Attorney firings and the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. The subpoena calls for Rove to appear at deposition on Monday, February 2, 2009.

Saturday, January 24, 2009
Obama's Pentagon Pick Causes Political Storm
Raytheon Company received more than $54 billion in contracts from the federal government during just the 3 years Lynn lobbied for the firm, according to fedspending.org, a project of OMB Watch. This doesn't include the potentially billions more that the company was awarded as a subcontractor or part of a group contract.

Friday, January 23, 2009
William Greider: Obama's Economic Plan Is Not Going to Save Us
Dire events are going to push Obama toward economic solutions far more fundamental than those he had intended.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
"Superman Comes to the Marketplace", by Norman Mailer
A great reminder of what great political journalism actually looks like. And perhaps particularly apropos in light of our latest "Superhero-As-President"....

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
"The Stanford Prison Experiment"- Video
What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
"My Spiritual Journey", by Barack Obama
(3 comments) This 11-page article was printed in the October 16, 2006 issue of Time Magazine.

Friday, January 16, 2009
The Ten Commandments
(2 comments) In case you missed the movie....

Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Girl Who Silenced the World for 6:32 Minutes
Severn Cullis-Suzuki addressed the UN in 1992 at the age of 12. A biography of what she has been up to since is available on Wikipedia.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Unedited Video of President Bush's Farewell News Conference
(1 comments) This was as GW himself said, "the ultimate exit interview." It is truly extraordinary to see how he reacts to some of the harshest criticsm of his Administration, apparently without the radio receiver in his ear...

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
NY Times' Inauguration Gallery: Everybody Who's Anybody in the Obama Administration
In December and January, the photographer Nadav Kander shot 52 portraits of Barack Obama's top advisers, aides and members of his incoming administration.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Ohio Teen Convicted of Killing Mom Over Video Game
Although a teenager's obsession with a violent video game may have warped his sense of reality, the boy is guilty of murdering his mother and wounding his father after they took "Halo 3" away from him, a judge ruled Monday.

Sunday, January 11, 2009
World's First Flying Car Prepares for Take-Off
(2 comments) Is it a car? Is it a plane? Actually it's both. The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month.

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Revealed: The Environmental Impact of Google Searches
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.

Saturday, January 10, 2009
"The Dark Side"- 90 Minute Frontline Special on Dick Cheney
(3 comments) In "The Dark Side," FRONTLINE tells the story of the vice president's role as the chief architect of the war on terror, and his battle with Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet for control of the "dark side." Drawing on more than 40 interviews and thousands of documents, the film provides a step-by-step examination of what happened inside the councils of war.

Saturday, January 10, 2009
Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock '69
The entire nearly one hour concert of Jimi Hendrix performing at the Woodstock festival in 1969.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Wall Street Is Big Donor to Inauguration
(1 comments) President-elect Barack Obama has banned corporations and big donors from funding his Jan. 20 inauguration. But 90% of donations received so far have been raised by well-heeled fund-raisers, including Wall Street executives whose companies have received billions of dollars in federal bailout money.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Illinois House Impeaches Blagojevich
The Illinois House voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich, an unprecedented action that sets up a Senate trial on whether he should be thrown out for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.

Monday, January 5, 2009
Obama and Education Reform
So I would have picked Darling-Hammond, but then again I would have picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for Attorney General, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary. So what do I know?

Monday, January 5, 2009
Franken To Be Declared Senate Victor In Minnesota
The state Canvassing Board was poised to certify the results of the recount in Minnesota's grueling Senate election in Al Franken's favor...

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Barack Obama Keynote Speech at Democratic Convention 2004
This is the speech which first made Barack a national figure.

Saturday, January 3, 2009
Bob Dylan Lays into Time Magazine Interviewer Circa 1965
"Magazines have too much to lose by printing the truth..."

Saturday, January 3, 2009
David Bowie on Charlie Rose
1998 interview covers a lot of ground...

Friday, January 2, 2009
Goodnight, Sweet Prince: Shakespearean Farewell to Pinter
Harold Pinter was buried yesterday afternoon before a small gathering of family and friends at Kensal Green cemetery in London. And, if the half-hour ceremony conducted around the graveside had a deeply moving, faintly Shakespearean and entirely secular quality to it, it was because Pinter himself had wished it that way.

Thursday, January 1, 2009
AP: Toyota Secretly Developing Solar Powered Green Car
(1 comments) Toyota Motor Corp. is secretly developing a vehicle that will be powered solely by solar energy in an effort to turn around its struggling business with a futuristic ecological car, a top business daily reported Thursday.

Friday, December 26, 2008
UK Playwright Harold Pinter Dies
Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had cancer, died on Christmas Eve aged 78. He wrote more than 30 plays including The Caretaker and The Birthday Party. His film scripts include The French Lieutenant's Woman. His style was so distinctive, "Pinteresque" entered the Oxford English Dictionary.

Friday, December 26, 2008
21% of American Atheists Believe in God, and 8% Are "Absolutely Certain" of It
(5 comments) A recent poll on religion uncovered some surprising results...

Friday, December 26, 2008
Man Shot For Talking During Movie
(3 comments) A South Philadelphia man enraged because a father and son were talking during a Christmas showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button took care of the situation when he pulled a .380-caliber gun and shot the father, police said.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Women's rights activist beheaded in Iraq
Gunmen broke into the house of a women's rights activist in the volatile northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday and beheaded her, police said.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Dick Cheney's 9/11 Connection
(4 comments) Well constructed case for the Vice President's involvement in the attacks of 9/11.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Dick Cheney: Osama Bin Laden Not Involved in 9/11
(8 comments) "We've never made the case or argued the case that somehow Osama Bin Laden was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming."

Saturday, December 20, 2008
FBI says, it has "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11"
(1 comments) The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden's Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden's Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11."

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Secretary of Transportation Testifies Cheney Aware of Jet Flight Path
(36 comments) When apprised that the jet heading towards the Pentagon was just 10 miles away, Cheney was asked if "his orders still stand." He said "Have you heard otherwise?" The plane was not shot down, the Pentagon was not evacuated and no action at all seemed to be taken to mitigated the impending casualties.

Friday, December 19, 2008
Korean Actress Convicted of Adultery
A popular Korean actress, Ok So-ri, recently tried to challenge the anti-adultery law after prosecutors sought to stick her with an 18-month prison term for cheating on her husband (the maximum penalty is two years).

Wednesday, December 17, 2008
New Yorker Magazine: "Outside Agitator: Naomi Klein and the New New Left"
(2 comments) Naomi's mainstream debut?

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Liberals Voice Concerns About Obama
Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices. Obama has reversed pledges to immediately repeal tax cuts for the wealthy and take on Big Oil. He's hedged his call for a quick drawdown in Iraq. And he's stocking his White House with anything but stalwarts of the left.

Saturday, December 6, 2008
Deadly Karaoke: Enraged Audience Kills Man For 'Hogging The Microphone'
(1 comments) Reminds me a little of the OEN "comments" crowd....

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World
(1 comments) Yeah, yeah, I know, "WHO CARES?!" But, any comments, slightly more thoughtful than this, are welcome. :)

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Obama Art
(2 comments) The Obama phenomenon has not been lost on the art world. Our President-elect is inspiring thousands of artists all over the world to share their vision of the past, present and future in a new light....

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
US Newspaper Ad Sales Fall a Record $2 Billion
The year-on-year quarterly percentage decline is the worst since since the NAA has been keeping such records and represents an increasingly rapid deceleration that began in the third quarter of 2006...

Monday, December 1, 2008
Paul Krugman: What to Do
(2 comments) What the world needs right now is a rescue operation. The global credit system is in a state of paralysis, and a global slump is building momentum as I write this. Reform of the weaknesses that made this crisis possible is essential, but it can wait a little while. First, we need to deal with the clear and present danger. To do this, policymakers around the world need to do two things...

Friday, November 28, 2008
So Far, Karl Rove is Really Happy With Obama
(1 comments) Change neo-cons can believe in...

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Blockbuster Goes On Demand, Will Rent Movies Direct To TV
lockbuster Inc. will start renting movies and television shows through a new gadget that may give consumers another reason to bypass the struggling video chain's 7,500 stores.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Video: Watch World Leaders Snub Bush at G20 Summit
Bush is not exactly going out with a bang. Rick Sanchez actually says on air that "this might be a case of what goes around comes around."

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
William Greider: The US Banking System is Broken
"The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College puts it plainly: "It is probable that many and perhaps most financial institutions are insolvent today -- with a black hole of negative net worth that would swallow Paulson's entire $700 billion in one gulp."

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Bush Drinking Again? Downs "Pisco Sour" In Peru
The Peru news agency Andina notes that President Bush was drinking a Peruvian cocktail during the recent APEC summit: Peru has successfully promoted its national drink "Pisco Sour" during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Summit, Peru's Environment Minister Antonio Brack said Sunday.

Monday, November 24, 2008
30 reasons for Great Depression 2 by 2011
(1 comments) By 2011? No recovery? No new bull? "Hey Paul, why do you keep talking about a bigger crash coming by 2011?" Readers ask that often. So here's a sequel to my predictions of 2000 and 2004, with a look three years ahead:

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
PC Magazine Closing Print Edition, Staying Online Only
Woe betide the print publications of the world -- the Internet is here, stealing your subscribers, and it's not going to go away. Adapt or die is the mantra of the newspapers and pulpy journals of the world, and Ziff Davis is the latest trying to do just that, stopping print publication of the venerable PC Magazine, in favor of an exclusively online publication.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Watch Justin Timberlake Compress 90 Minute SNL Hosting Gig Into 2 Minute Weekend Update
He had to back out of a gig as the host and musical guest of "Saturday Night Live," but Justin Timberlake stopped by SNL last night during "Weekend Update." He did a quick rendition of how a show hosted by him would have gone in two minutes flat. Pretty impressive...

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Complete Video of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" w/Spanish Subtitles
(2 comments) Acclaimed documentary on how the electric car almost just made it... Almost.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
"Hoop Dreams" Complete Video
Two young men are followed during their entire high-school career, beginning with their participation in playground games and ending with their being recruited by colleges. One of the best docs ever...

Friday, November 14, 2008
Bill O'Reilly vs Jon Stewart
(9 comments) Jon Stewart traded punches with guest Bill O'Reilly last night on "The Daily Show".

Friday, November 14, 2008
Obama's Transparent Presidency: Weekly YouTube Addresses
President-elect Obama's office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly addresses - fireside chats for the web generation - on YouTube.

Friday, November 14, 2008
"Pinch Me!" by Michael Moore
"But today we celebrate this triumph of decency over personal attack, of peace over war, of intelligence over a belief that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs just 6,000 years ago. What will it be like to have a smart president? Science, banished for eight years, will return. Imagine supporting our country's greatest minds as they seek to cure illness, discover new forms of energy, and work to save the planet....pinch me."

Thursday, November 13, 2008
Handling Intimacy
What is intimacy in a relationship? How can you recognize intimacy in a relationship? Obstacles to establishing intimacy in a relationship. Negative consequences of inability to handle intimacy. Beliefs which prevent establishing intimacy. Behavior traits needed to handle healthy intimacy in a relationship. Steps to improve intimacy in a relationship.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Boehner Demands Fed Identify Recipients of $2 Trillion in Loans
House Republican leader John Boehner called for the Federal Reserve to disclose the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers and the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. Boehner, in a prepared statement, also asked the Federal Reserve to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details about the loans.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Complete Video: George Carlin, "Life is Worth Losing"
One of George's final major concerts.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Full Video of Michael Pollan: "In Defense of Food"
Dr. Pollan talks about the most current science regarding the links between what we eat and our health.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Nation's President Wants His Entire Country Moved
The new president of the Maldives wants to relocate -- his entire country.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Washington's $5 Trillion Tab
Fighting the financial crisis has put the U.S. on the hook for some $5 trillion a report says. So far. For all the fury over Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion emergency economic relief fund, it seems downright puny when compared to the running total of the government's response to the credit crisis. According to CreditSights, a research firm in New York and London, the U.S. government has put itself on the hook

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
NY Times: Retailers Report a Sales Collapse
Sales at the nation's largest retailers fell off a cliff in October, casting fresh doubt on the survival of some chains and signaling that this will probably be the weakest Christmas shopping season in decades.

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Saul Bellow's Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, 1976
"What is at the center now? At the moment, neither art nor science but mankind determining, in confusion and obscurity, whether it will endure or go under. The whole species - everybody - has gotten into the act."

Friday, November 7, 2008
President-Elect Obama's First News Conference
Full press conference, 11/7, from MSNBC.

Friday, November 7, 2008
Sarah Palin Spent $40,000 On Luxury Goods For Todd
On top of the $150,000 first outlined in Federal Election Commission filings, Palin spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on additional clothing, makeup and jewelry for herself and her family, including $40,000 in luxury goods for her husband, Todd, our colleague Michael Shear reports. The campaign was charged for silk boxer shorts, spray tanners and 13 suitcases to carry all the designer clothes, according to two GOP insiders.

Friday, November 7, 2008
US Car Giants Report Large Losses
GM said it would run out of cash in the first half of 2009 if economic and market conditions did not improve.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Longer-term Jobless Benefits Hit 25-year High
The number of out-of-work Americans continuing to draw unemployment benefits has surged to a 25-year high, while shoppers turned extra frugal, further proof of the damage from sinking economy, credit problems and financial stresses.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
US News and World Report to Abandon Print for the Web
US News & World Report, long the number three newsmagazine in the United States behind Time and Newsweek, has become the latest US media outlet to abandon print for the Web. "We're accelerating this transformation in response to our rapid growth online where our audience is now about 7 million uniques a month and growing," US News president Bill Holiber and editor Brian Kelly said in the memo. "For all of you who have wo

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Video of Obama's Acceptance Speech
Complete video from CNN.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Obama's Tsunami: Just How He Did It
Obama beat McCain in every income group from the very poor with family incomes of $15,000 or less, 73-25, to those making over $200,000, 53-45.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
"Somewhere in the Universe a Gear in the Machinery Shifted."
The Democrats' moment with Obama, as a brilliant campaigner confronts the challenges of governance, could also prove fleeting. For now, the results - in their breadth across a continent - suggest seismic change that goes far beyond Obama's 6 percent margin in the popular vote.

Saturday, November 1, 2008
Internet surpasses newspapers as source for campaign news
Many more Americans are turning to the internet for campaign news this year as the web becomes a key source of election news. Television remains the dominant source, but the percent who say they get most of their campaign news from the internet has tripled since October 2004 (from 10% then to 33% now).

Friday, October 31, 2008
CBS/NY Times Survey Finds Double-Digit Advantage For Democrat
With less than one week until Election Day, Barack Obama maintains a clear lead over John McCain in the presidential race, a new CBS News/New York Times poll suggests. The Democratic nominee now leads his Republican rival by 11 percentage points, 52 percent to 41 percent, among likely voters nationwide.

Friday, October 31, 2008
Voter Turnout Expected to Be Highest in Decades
Voter turnout will be the highest in decades, dwarfing recent presidential elections, experts predict. The only question dividing experts is how huge will it be. Will it be the largest since 1968, largest since 1960 or even, as one expert predicts, the largest in a century? Soaring early voting levels hint at a big turnout, but that could just be the same voters casting ballots earlier instead of more voters hitting the polls.

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Poll finds 23% of Texans think Obama is Muslim
(8 comments) University of Texas poll to be released today shows Republican presidential candidate John McCain and GOP Sen. John Cornyn leading by comfortable margins in Texas, as expected. But the statewide survey of 550 registered voters has one very surprising finding: 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
'Obama Wins!,' Newspaper Declares
The Sun News is a bi-monthly newspaper and its Oct 26-Nov 8 issue had to hit the streets, and the newsstands, before the election. So the editors decided to make a leap of faith and declare Democrat Barack Obama the winner.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
New AP Poll Indicates All Roads to Winning Now Closed to John McCain
(1 comments) Less than a week before Election Day, the AP-GfK polls show Obama winning among early voters, favored on almost every issue, benefiting from the country's sour mood and widely viewed as the winning candidate by voters in eight crucial states - Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Caution: The Internet May Be Hazardous to Your Humanity
(4 comments) A study of the use of areas of the brain during different activities found that it is markedly more active when carrying out an internet search than when reading a book. The stimulation was concentrated in the frontal, temporal and cingulate areas, which control visual imagery, decision-making and memory. The areas associated with abstract thinking and empathy showed virtually no increase in stimulation.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
News Orgs Investigate Possibly Deadly McCain '64 Car Crash
For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved in an automobile accident that injured or, perhaps, killed another individual.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
First Look at Microsoft Windows 7
At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months, Microsoft has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes, and that many bundled applications would be unbundled and shipped with Windows Live instead.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor to Cease Daily Publication & Become a Weekly
The newspaper, which will cease daily publication next April and emphasize the Web, becomes the most prominent paper to scale back print.

Monday, October 27, 2008
Time Magazine: 7 Things That Could Go Wrong on Election Day
We can go to the moon, split atoms to power submarines, squeeze profits from a 99 cent hamburger and watch football highlights on cell phones. But the most successful democracy in human history has yet to figure out how to conduct a proper election. As it stands, the American voting system is a worrisome mess...

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Views of the 2008 Election by Contributors to the NY Review of Books
A collection of short essays head and shoulders above the usual self-righteous blather of arrogant, finger-pointing, fault-finding, flaw-filled "I'm-so-good" lefties. The articles are by: Russell Baker David Bromwich Mark Danner Andrew Delbanco Joan Didion Ronald Dworkin Frances FitzGerald Timothy Garton Ash Paul Krugman Joseph Lelyveld Darryl Pinckney Thomas Powers Michael Tomasky Garry Wil

Sunday, October 26, 2008
NJ's Largest Daily Newspaper Cuts Newsroom Staff by Nearly Half
Donald Newhouse has said that The Star-Ledger, based in Newark, is on a pace to lose $40 million this year, as the economy slows and the newspaper industry suffers through the sharpest drop in advertising revenue since the Depression. With the buyouts and union concessions, the paper should return to operating in the black, he said, but he added that the times were too uncertain for firm predictions.

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Paul Krugman Discusses the Current Economic Crisis on Charlie Rose
He also talks about how the Nobel Prize people called on his cell phone to inform him that he had won, and that he thought it was a prank...

Sunday, October 26, 2008
JFK Assassination: Secret Service Stand Down
(8 comments) Oddly, I posted this video about one month ago. But when I went back to check my "Quick Links" section today, this was the only posting missing. And I'm sure no one from OEN deleted it. So, I feel obliged to put it back up... For those who didn't see it before, it contains astonishing footage of secret service agents being taken off JFK's car immediately before it approaches Dealey Plaza in Dallas...

Friday, October 24, 2008
Survey: Half of US Doctors Use Placebo Treatments
(2 comments) About half of American doctors in a new survey say they regularly give patients placebo treatments - usually drugs or vitamins that won't really help their condition. And many of these doctors are not honest with their patients about what they are doing, the survey found.

Friday, October 24, 2008
Video The Vote: Play Your Role in Keeping the 2008 Election From Being Stolen
Sign up to Video the Vote and join a growing network of Americans working together to monitor and improve our election systems. We are concerned citizens, amateur videographers, voting rights activists, and filmmakers united by a commitment to strengthening democracy through citizen oversight.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Pollster Zogby: If Obama Wins Like This We Can Be Talking Not Only Victory But Realignment...
Obama leads by 27 points among Independents, 27 points among those who have already voted, 16 among newly registered voters, 31 among Hispanics, 93%-2% among African Americans, 16 among women, 27 among those 18-29, 5 among 30-49 year olds, 8 among 50-64s, 4 among those over 65, 25 among Moderates, and 12 among Catholics (which is better than Bill Clinton's 10-point victory among Catholics in 1996).

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Socialists: Obama No Socialist
So, how do you know if you're a socailist? Generally, it involves espousing government control over a country's basic industries, like transportation, communication and energy, while also allowing some government regulation of private industries.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Video Report from Reuters: Car That Runs on Nothing But Water Unveiled in Japan
(10 comments) Developed by Genepax in Japan, this commuter vehicle is able to travel at 80km/h for one hour on just a single litre of water. The concept is much the same as other fuel cell vehicles, except you don't need to feed the car with straight hydrogen. The Water Energy System (WES) and Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) are used to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen in water...

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Bottled water has contaminants too, study finds
Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants often found in tap water, according to a study released Wednesday by an environmental advocacy group. The findings challenge the popular impression - and marketing pitch - that bottled water is purer than tap water, the researchers say.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Charlie Cook: "Over the Last Few Days It [the Election] Suddenly Has Had the Feel of Concrete Setting."
(1 comments) The metrics of this election argue strongly that this campaign is over, it's only the memory of many an election that seemed over but wasn't that is keeping us from closing the book mentally on this one. First, no candidate behind this far in the national polls, this late in the campaign has come back to win. Sure, we have seen come-from-behind victories, but they didn't come back this far this late.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Ronald Reagan Urges His Countrymen to Vote For Barack Obama
Quite persuasively, I might add...

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Bush Decides to Keep Guant�namo Open
Mr. Bush's top advisers held a series of meetings at the White House this summer after a Supreme Court ruling in June cast doubt on the future of the American detention center. But Mr. Bush adopted the view of his most hawkish advisers that closing Guant�namo would involve too many legal and political risks to be acceptable, now or any time soon, the officials said.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Obama Assembles U.S.'s 'Largest Law Firm' for Voting
(2 comments) In Florida [alone], Democratic lawyer Charles H. Lichtman has assembled almost 5,000 lawyers to monitor precincts, assist voters turned away at the polls and litigate any disputes that can't be resolved out of court. ''On Election Day, I will be managing the largest law firm in the country, albeit for one day,'' said Lichtman, 53, a Fort Lauderdale corporate lawyer...

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
San Francisco Weighs Decriminalizing Prostitution
San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K-a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex.

Sunday, October 19, 2008
Naomi Klein on Charlie Rose
(3 comments) One of Naomi's finest moments.... 29 minute conversation.

Saturday, October 18, 2008
For Mahavishnu Orchestra Fans....
(2 comments) A somewhat cosmic moment.

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Janis Joplin Sings "Maybe" on Ed Sullivan in 1969
One of Janis' best recorded performances...

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Video: 10 Minutes with Woody Allen
A very, very young Woody Allen on girls, stage fright, the weather, the creative process, and his longstanding aspiration to be a criminal...

Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna and Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Free Online
A one-of-a-kind spiritual classic, and the complete works by someone generally regarded as the first missionary from the East to the West. For meditators, check out Vo1. and click on "Raja Yoga". When you scroll down just a bit you'll find the "Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali". This is, of course, the fellow who invented what most people in the West practice a variation of, along with a commentary by one of it's Masters...

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Japan Goes Bananas Over Diet Craze
The Morning Banana Diet consists of one or more bananas with room-temperature water for breakfast; an optional snack at 3 p.m.; and anything you want for lunch and dinner. The catch: You can't eat desserts after meals, dinner has to be consumed by 8 p.m., and you have to go to bed by midnight.

Saturday, October 18, 2008
John Lennon and Bob Dylan in the Back of a Taxi in 1966
Bobby apparently took a wee bit too much merrydust and seemed to get on John's nerves from time to time...

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Obama Attracts Record Crowd of 100,000 in St. Louis...
You really have to see this picture to believe it....

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Noam Chomsky on Charlie Rose
This is the only time Mr. Rose has ever had Professor Chomsky on his show when he was host (Chomsky was on one other time with a guest host).

Saturday, October 18, 2008
Video: Naomi Klein On Obama
Don't be fooled again...

Friday, October 17, 2008
2004 Redux: Bush Racked Up More Votes Than Registered Republicans in 47 out of 67 counties in Florida.
(1 comments) Let's just not misunderestimate the GOP's willingness and desire to steal Presidential elections....

Friday, October 17, 2008
Wall Street Monsters & Meat (You)
The tag team of JPMorgan as the monster and Goldman Sachs as its harlot represent a powerful pair that is more responsible for destroying the entire US financial system than 95% of the American public has any awareness... Their profound presence in keeping the US Treasury Bond yields down can never be understated. They do so by managing 85% of the credit derivatives on the planet.

Friday, October 17, 2008
Yes!!! "High Court Rejects GOP Bid In Voting Dispute"
The Supreme Court is siding with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations. The justices on Friday overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility.

Friday, October 17, 2008
"Aldous Huxley - Gravity Of Light" Full-Length Documentary
An intellectual and spiritual exploration into the ideas of novelist, visionary,and prophet Aldous Huxley.

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Dems Take GOP Attempt to Steal 200,000 Ohio Votes to the US Supreme Court
Just as RFK Jr. wrote on OPN recently, The GOP is using the "Help America Vote Act" to disenfranchise millions of voters across America. But the Dems are finally fighting back! Though this article tries to make it seem it's the Democrats who are acting unethicaly. The HAVA makes it possible to disqualify any voter who registers to vote differently from how they did on their driver's licence or SS registration, by a letter

Thursday, October 16, 2008
U.S. Reports Grim Data, EU Vows to Shield Economy
Major U.S. banks reported huge losses and other companies painted a grim outlook for the battered U.S. economy on Thursday as Europe vowed to shield its industries from the global crisis. In the United States, investment bank Merrill Lynch wrote down $5.7 billion in toxic assets and Citigroup reported a quarterly net loss of $2.8 billion. U.S. industrial production posted its biggest drop in 34 years in September...

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
CBS Reports 14 Pt. Lead for Obama With 4 out of 5 Supporters' Minds Made Up
The poll presents serious problems for McCain, with only 20 days left in the campaign, since four out of five of each candidate's supporters now say their minds are made up.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
World Recession Fears Mount After Financial Crisis
Fears grew on Wednesday that the financial crisis will mutate into a worldwide recession with leaders calling for new global action against a slowdown. ADVERTISEMENT As EU leaders gathered for a summit devoted to the financial turmoil, a top US central bank official said the United States appeared to be already in recession.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Where Is Tiny Tim When You Really Need Him?
Truly a piece of classic Americana. Make sure your speakers are on (or off...)

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Video: Sathya Sai Baba "The Universal Teacher"
Excellent introduction to the teachings of a living man regarded as a full Avatar(Incarnation of God, not computer icon...)by as many as 100 million followers- including heads of state. Sai Baba has been visited by thousands of well-known people such as John Lennon, George Harrison, Neil Armstrong, Hillary Clinton, etc. It's okay, go ahead and laugh. Everyone does... at first. Best viewed with reduced screen.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
McCain Transition Chief Aided Saddam In Lobbying Effort
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Financial Crisis Haunts Milton Friedman's Legacy
U.S. economist Milton Friedman, the champion of unfettered markets, is under siege for theories that some blame for unleashing the global financial crisis. ADVERTISEMENT His legacy is even being questioned on the leafy University of Chicago campus that he once called home.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
My Friends: CBS News Poll Reports That Obama Has Opened Up A 14-Point Lead Over McCain
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Palin's Rural Adviser Quits Over Appointments
Gov. Sarah Palin's rural adviser resigned Monday amid criticism of the governor's record on hiring Alaska Natives. ADVERTISEMENT Rhonda McBride, who is not an Alaska Native, made the announcement in an e-mail to several Native leaders, saying there need to be more Native voices in Palin's administration.

Monday, October 13, 2008
"9/11 Mysteries"
This is the most recommended video at the "9/11truth.org" website. See why....

Monday, October 13, 2008
9/11 Blueprint for Truth Presented by Architect Richard Gage, AIA
(7 comments) This video presents a watertight case for controlled demolition of the three steel-building collapses at the World Trade Center, New York on 9/11/01. It includes physicist Steven Jones' updated evidence of thermite. Gage's website, www.ae911truth.org, is rapidly drawing building and engineering professionals to the 9/11 movement... Dedicated to Tiffane.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Attack on The Pentagon: September 11, 2001
(10 comments) Perhaps the best video regarding all the unanswered questions about what actually hit the Pentagon on 9/11.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Video: "Loose Change 2nd Edition"
(4 comments) The Grandaddy of all 9/11 conspiracy films, and some say the first genuine Internet blockbuster. A good opportunity if you stll haven't seen it, or would like to see it again. And if you walk away after watching it (in it's entirety) and still believe 9/11 was the work of 19 Muslim hijackers with boxcutters, there will certainly be place for you waiting in the Jeb Bush Administration...

Sunday, October 12, 2008
Former Top Reagan Aid Predicts Landslide for Obama
Former Reagan political adviser Ed Rollins likened today's landscape to that in 1980, when voters were angry at President Jimmy Carter and the Democrats and turned to Reagan in droves once they felt comfortable with the idea of him as president. "Barack has met the threshold," Rollins said. "Once Reagan met the threshold, people wanted to get rid of Carter and they did in a landslide. This is going to turn into a landslide."

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Swiss Government Issues Bill of Rights for Plants
Revolution is in the air, as the Swiss Government's Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology concludes that plants have rights, and we have to treat them appropriately. A majority of the panel concluded that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive."

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Video Of Sarah Palin Swimsuit Competition Miss Alaska 1984
(4 comments) She may not be fit to be President, but...

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah Is Absolutely Speaking'
(5 comments) Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, another powerful Chicago-based political figure associated with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other long-time associates of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, is leaving no doubt about what he thinks of the leader in the campaign for the White House.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Bach's Wife Wrote Some of His Music
(2 comments) With over 30 years of research and applying more recent training from forensic police, Associate Professor Martin Jarvis says he can clearly show that Anna Magdalena Wilcke, Bach's second wife, wrote several of the manuscripts previously credited to her famous husband.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
McCain Linked To Private Iran-Contra Group
Barack Obama has his William Ayers connection. Now John McCain may have an Iran-Contra connection. In the 1980s, McCain served on the advisory board to the U.S. chapter of an international group linked to ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Body Politics: Sarah Palin's Body Language And Why It Should Worry You
(2 comments) The last public figure we saw who could grin and lie with that kind of sunny confidence was O. J. Simpson.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Who Won The Debate? Clean Sweep For Obama.
(2 comments) The insta-polls, which provide viewers with a somewhat skewed but important insight into how each candidate fared say, by and large, that Obama scored a victory in the second debate.

Saturday, October 4, 2008
Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User
One of these days, I'm going to write a book called, 'The Basics.' It's going to be a compendium of the essential tech bits that you just assume everyone knows–but you're wrong.

Friday, October 3, 2008
AFP: Palin Escapes Gaffes, But Biden Wins Snap Polls
The snap opinion polls were virtually identical to the Obama/McCain post-debate polls, and indicated Biden won. CNN's sampling said he took the clash by 51 to 36 percent and a CBS survey of uncommitted voters put Biden at 46 percent against 21 percent who said Palin won.

Friday, October 3, 2008
Paul Krugman; "Edge of the Abyss"
(4 comments) The financial news since the middle of last month has been grim. And what's truly scary is that we're entering a period of severe crisis with weak, confused leadership.

Friday, October 3, 2008
McCain Behind by 168 Electoral Votes
As I said, it would be the theft of the century for McCain to win at this point...

Friday, October 3, 2008
Employers Cut Jobs By Most In More Than 5 years
Employers slashed payrolls by 159,000 in September, the most in more than five years, a worrisome sign that the economy is hurtling toward a deep recession.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Of the 16 Battleground States, Now Only 2 Show Any Advantage Towards McCain
(2 comments) It would be one heck of a theft if McCain ends up winning this one....

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
"Insider's Guide to Swinging Elections"
Our five-minute film features "Turdblossom" (Karl Rove) with a Snidely Whiplash moustache, jib jabbing to a cartoon room of Republican Operatives about how he plans to steal the White House for John McCain. If only it weren't true – but, sadly, the machines are rigged to delete votes and crash and voter lists are being purged of Democrats. If only that knot in our stomachs would relax...

Sunday, September 28, 2008
McCain and Team Have Many Ties to Gambling Industry
Senator John McCain was on a roll. In a room reserved for high-stakes gamblers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut, he tossed $100 chips around a hot craps table. When the marathon session ended around 2:30 a.m., the Arizona senator and his entourage emerged with thousands of dollars in winnings.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
"Bush Family Fortunes"
This hour long documentary follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team's spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
"The Corporation" Full-Length Documentary
(1 comments) THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative...

Sunday, September 28, 2008
John F Kennedy Assassination Secret Service Stand Down
(4 comments) Extraordinary footage of the most critical secret service agents being dismissed, mid-motorcade, moments prior to JFK's assassination. Watch as the agent assigned to ride the car bumper, inches behind the President, shrugs his shoulders in disbeief, three times, before he walks off. Astounding...

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Gallup Daily: Obama Moves to 50% to 42% Lead
The first daily Gallup Poll since the debate on Friday.

Friday, September 26, 2008
HSBC Cuts 1,100 Investment Banking Jobs
"We're doing it because of market conditions and the economic environment, and our cautious outlook for 2009," Hong Kong-based spokesman Gareth Hewett told Reuters on Friday.

Friday, September 26, 2008
Michael Moore's New Film, "Slacker Uprising", Available Free Online
"This is being done entirely as a gift to my fans. The only return any of us are hoping for is the largest turnout of young voters ever at the polls in November." - Michael Moore

Friday, September 26, 2008
AP Poll: Public Says Candidates Should Debate 60-22
Republican candidate John McCain has said he would not attend the debate unless consensus was reached in Washington over a multi-billion-dollar federal bailout of the financial industry. But according to the AP-Knowledge Networks poll, people want the debate to go ahead by 60 percent to 22 percent, with the rest undecided.

Friday, September 26, 2008
The Debate Is On!
Republican John McCain agreed to attend the first presidential debate Friday night even though Congress doesn't have a bailout deal, reversing an earlier decision to delay the forum until Washington had addressed the financial crisis.

Friday, September 26, 2008
"Born Rich" Full-Length Documentary
Hour-long doc made by first-time filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 23-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, captures the rituals, worries and social customs of the young Trumps, Vanderbilts, Newhouses and Bloombergs in the documentary special, BORN RICH, a 2003 Sundance Film Festival selection. Offering candid insights into the privileges and burdens of inheriting more money than most people will ever earn...

Friday, September 26, 2008
"Manufacturing Consent" Full-Length Documentary on Noam Chomsky
(8 comments) This 2 1/2 hour documentary had been shown virtually everywhere in the world except the US, until very recently, when it finally aired in Prime Time on Link TV. The work must rank as one of the great docs of all time, and is perhaps my favorite. Perfect for anyone who doesn't quite understand why Noam Chomsky is such a global phenomenon: One of the greatest minds, and most courageous souls in history.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
"Why We Fight": Full Length Documentary
(1 comments) One of the most important documentaries in the history of film. It strives, and to a great extent, succeeds in illustrating how the military industrial complex has come to have a virtual strangle hold on modern society.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sathya Sai Baba: The "Milestone" Discourse
In 1968, Sathya Sai Baba spoke for almost the first time in a major discourse about His being the Avatar and proclaimed His mission on earth: the establishment of righteousness. In this video, made from a 16mm film titled "The Message I Bring", by the late Richard Bock, Dr. Kasturi reads the discourse while we see scenes from darshan at the time.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Chomsky: Can A Democrat Change Mid East Foreign Policy?
(1 comments) IT IS Important to bear in mind that neither Democratic candidate has expressed a principled objection to the invasion of Iraq. By that I mean the kind of objection that was universally expressed when the Russians invaded Afghanistan or when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait: condemnation on the grounds that aggression is a crime -- in fact the "supreme international crime..."

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
"An Unreasonable Man" Part 1: Full Length Documentary On Ralph Nader
(4 comments) Both Part One and Part Two have been posted- just not together...

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
"An Unreasonable Man" Part 2: Full Length Documentary on Ralph Nader
Both Part One and Part Two have been posted- just not together.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
A Note From Chomsky on the Current Financial Crisis
The unprecedented intervention of the Fed may be justified or not in narrow terms, but it reveals, once again, the profoundly undemocratic character of state capitalist institutions, designed in large measure to socialise cost and risk and privatize profit, without a public voice.

Monday, September 22, 2008
One Third of White Democrats Harbor Negative Views of Blacks
Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks-many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles.

Monday, September 22, 2008
David Foster Wallace on Life and Work
(2 comments) Adapted from a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College. Mr. Wallace, 46, died recently after apparently committing suicide.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Peaks and Valleys: The McCain Bump Coming to a Close
It's a strange truth of politics: it's unpredictable and predictable at the same time. To know what's really going on, you have to trust history and trends. History says North Carolina goes McCain. Trends say Virginia is very much up for grabs. History says the conventions always throw polls for a loop, and everything settles back out. The trend, in the latest tracking polls, proves this out.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
So Much for McCain's Convention "Bump"
At least one poll has Obama now ahead by 4%....

Monday, September 15, 2008
Amendment Holds Senior Corporate Officials Criminally Liable For the Wrongdoing of their Company
"Most remarkable amendment in decades."

Monday, September 15, 2008
Is John McCain's Health Too Poor For Him Too Serve As President
(1 comments) Personally, I think the neocons are setting McCain up to only last as president long enough for them to install Palin as the New bush for eight more years: charming, compliant, with no moral compass.

Monday, September 15, 2008
Video: Ralph Nader in Denver, 2008
(1 comments) Makes Obama look like the vacuous populist he is...

Monday, September 15, 2008
Violence Down in Iraq But Not Because of the Surge
(1 comments) Deal with it...

Friday, September 12, 2008
"Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?"
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?" So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial brain...

Saturday, August 16, 2008
"If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines"
Perhaps it's just a coincidence that the sudden rise of inaccurate exit polls happened around the same time corporate-programmed, computer-controlled, modem-capable voting machines began recording and tabulating ballots.

Thursday, August 14, 2008
Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Phelps' 12,000 Calorie-A-Day Diet
(4 comments) Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has an Olympic recipe for success - and it involves eating a staggering 12,000 calories a day. "Eat, sleep and swim. That's all I can do,"...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Most Companies in US Avoid Federal Income Taxes
(3 comments) Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes over the same period. Collectively, the companies reported trillions of dollars in sales, according to GAO's estimate.

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Naomi Klein: The Olympics Officially Unveil "Police State 2.0"
(6 comments) The games have been billed as China's "coming out party" to the world. They are far more significant than that. These Olympics are the coming out party for a disturbingly efficient way of organizing society, one that China has perfected over the past three decades, and is finally ready to show off. It is a potent hybrid of the most powerful political tools of authoritarianism communism: central planning, merciless repression..

Sunday, August 10, 2008
Iraq Demands 'Clear Timeline' For US Withdrawal
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters that American and Iraqi negotiators were "very close" to reaching a long-term security agreement that will set the rules for U.S. troops in Iraq after the U.N. mandate expires at the end of the year. Zebari said the Iraqis were insisting that the agreement include a "very clear timeline" for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces, but he refused to talk about specific dates.

Friday, August 8, 2008
Major Discovery From MIT Primed To Unleash Solar Revolution
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn't shine.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
New Ron Suskind Book says White House Ordered forgery
A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein. Suskind writes in "The Way of the World," to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein's regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Video: Camp Pendleton Martial Law War Prep?
(3 comments) Clear video and eyewitness account of a lot of very strange and unexplained activity at previously quiet military base.

Saturday, August 2, 2008
America's Economic Free Fall
Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the prospect of their historic implosion. Congress quickly agreed to enact a gargantuan bailout, with more to come, to calm the anxieties and halt the deflation of Wall Street giants. Put aside partisan bickering, no time for hearings, no need to think through...

Monday, July 28, 2008
Study: Media Far More Biased Against Obama than McCain
Now there's a headline sure to make Rush Limbaugh's face a little redder. The claim comes to us from George Mason University's Center for Media and Public Affairs, which has studied network newscasts for 20 years running. After analyzing the nightly ebb and flow of our current race, the center's researchers see a pattern...

Saturday, July 19, 2008
9/11: Press ForTruth
(1 comments) Excellent documentary following the "Jersey Girls" and 9/11 Timeline creator Paul Thompson.

Friday, July 18, 2008
YouTube: Send Karl Rove to Jail
A nice composite of footage clearly showing why Karl Rove has no business walking the streets.

Saturday, July 5, 2008
"The Luckiest Girl" by Nicholas D. Kristof
This year's college graduates owe their success to many factors, from hectoring parents to cherished remedies for hangovers. But one of the most remarkable of the new graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits something utterly improbable: a goat.

Friday, July 4, 2008
FOX News Doctors NY Times Photos
Happy July 4th from Fox! American journalism has sunk to a new low. On Wednesday, Fox News displayed photos that its editors had doctored of two New York Times employees. Media Matters has graciously provided us with the before-and-after evidence. Why has Rupert Murdoch's flagship television network stooped to such tactics? The Times had the audacity to run a piece about Fox's recent poor ratings performance.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Haig, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, et al Discuss How They Faked the Film of the Moon Walk
(5 comments) This might be the most amazing documentary ever. Haig, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, etc sit around a table letting the director get them drunk while they reminisce about faking the film. Kubrick's wife is then interviewed to confirm that Stanley did film it, and goes into detail as to how and why. After that it goes into the stratosphere with Nixon sending out half the navy to track down and stop a renege Colonel who mistakenly...

Sunday, June 29, 2008
"Obama No" by Adolph Reed, Jr. Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
(2 comments) "He's a vacuous opportunist.I've never been an Obama supporter. I've known him since the very beginning of his political career, which was his campaign for the seat in my state senate district in Chicago. He struck me then as a vacuous opportunist, a good performer with an ear for how to make white liberals like him. I argued at the time that his fundamental political center of gravity, beneath an empty rhetoric of hope...

Sunday, June 29, 2008
"The White Whale" by E. L. Doctorow, Jr.
What does it say about the United States today that this fellowship of the arts and sciences and philosophy is called to affirm knowledge as a public good? What have we come to when the self-evident has to be argued as if--500 years into the Enlightenment and 230-some years into the life of this Republic--it is a proposition still to be proven?

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Sewage Plant May Be Named After Bush
Tributes to U.S. presidents have come in all forms -- take the Washington Monument, the Kennedy Space Center and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, to name a few. And soon, if a San Francisco group has its way, there could be the George W. Bush Sewage Plant, according to The New York Times.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Nader: Obama 'talking white'
(10 comments) "Basically he's coming on as someone who is not going to threaten the white power structure, whether it's corporate or whether it's simply oligarchic. And they love it. Whites just eat it up."

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Countering Race With Class
(1 comments) In our us-versus-them culture, every political campaign is a battle to define who exactly the "us" and "them" are. Republicans typically say it is natives versus immigrants, Christians versus non-Christians and heartland folks versus Hollywood elites. At their most effective, Democrats parry by defining the "us" as the majority of working people, and the "them" as the tiny group of plutocrats who control the country.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
US Oil Giants Awarded No Bid Contracts Over More Than 40 Foreign Oil Companies
(1 comments) The Bush/Cheney Oil Junta is finally making it's big push, with gas prices soaring (for no good reason), domestic oil companies being awarded exclusive rights to service Iraqi oil fields, and the propaganda campaign for offshore drilling now in full swing...

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
This Makes At Least Two Serious Analysts Who Believe McCain Won't Be the GOP Nominee
(2 comments) It may take weeks, or perhaps even a few months, but the odds are John McCain will drop out of the presidential race for the Republican nomination before the first vote is cast in Iowa in January.

Friday, May 30, 2008
CNN's Yellin: Network execs killed critical White House stories
CNN's Jessica Yellin talked to Anderson Cooper about Scott McClellan's tell-all memoir and agreed with the former press secretary that White House reporters "dropped the ball" during the run-up to war. But Yellin went much further, revealing that news executives--presumably at ABC News, where she'd worked from July 2003 to August 2007--actively pushed her not do hard-hitting pieces on the Bush administrat

Friday, May 30, 2008
Phone home: Purported UFO video to be shown Friday
The Rocky Mountain News is reporting that today the world might actually see who else is out there. Jeff Peckman claims he will reveal video of live alien to the news media.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Lost Tribes Discovered in Brazil
(4 comments) The BBC reported last night that an uncontacted tribe had been discovered on the border between Brazil and Peru. The National Indian Foundation, a government agency in Brazil, took these photos and published them Thursday.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
John Bolton to Be Target of Citizen's Arrest at Hay Festival
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen's arrest when he addresses an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales this evening. George Monbiot, the journalist and activist, is planning the action because he believes Mr Bolton is a "war criminal". He said he was surprised that a "war criminal" such as Mr Bolton would be allowed to "swim through the politest of polite soirees – which is of co

Thursday, May 22, 2008
#1 NY Times page views: Academy Awards Red Carpet- not Spitzer, Super Tuesday, etc....
POLITICS ARE FINE, BUT SHOW US THE DRESSES: The New York Times online broke the Eliot Spitzer scandal, invested untold energy and money on election coverage and went deep on Heath Ledger, but those weren't the days that set total page view records. That honor goes to...the day after the Academy Awards, with its red-carpet slide shows, which presented the single biggest traffic day at 37.6 million page views.

Friday, May 16, 2008
"Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" by Lee Iacocca
(4 comments) The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do.

Friday, May 16, 2008
US Soldier Refuses to Serve in 'Illegal Iraq War'
(2 comments) Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love. "I was from a poor, white family from the south, and I did badly in school," the now 24-year-old told AFP. "I was 'filet mignon' for recruiters. They started phoning me when I was in 10th grade," or around 16 years old, he added. Chiroux joined the US army straight out of high school nearly six years ago, and worked his way up from private...

Thursday, May 1, 2008
The 50 Most Influential US Political Pundits
(3 comments) The Telegraph today unveils its list of the 50 most influential political pundits to help readers sort through whose opinions matter. These are the people who make voters sit up and take notice. They are the ones who political candidates and campaigns are constantly seeking to woo and influence. They include television presenters, newspaper columnists, bloggers and talking heads.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008
YouTube Video of Bush Admin Chief Economist Charging Admin Caused 9/11
Actual video testimony by Morgan Reynolds, the Chief Economist for the Bush Administartion 2001-2002 stating "President Bush, come out with your hands up!"

Monday, April 28, 2008
Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate
It's a paradox: the political center has clearly shifted; what used to be considered "left wing" positions have now become part of the mainstream, and the views of the Right are now at odds with the majority of the American public -- and with reality.

Saturday, April 26, 2008
Senators Attack Bush Over Oil
(1 comments) Five senators accused the Bush administration Thursday of "coddling" oil companies and the Saudi Arabian government - at the expense of Americans' wallets. "The Saudis have to understand this is a two-way street," Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. "We provide them weapons, our troops provide them protection and then, they rake us over the coals when it comes to oil."

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Vivekananda: The Necessity of Religion
(2 comments) Three religions now stand in the world which have come down to us from time prehistoric - Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. They have all received tremendous shocks and all of them prove by their survival their internal strength.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Marshall McLuhan... What Are You Doin'?
Mr McLuhan tries to explain in one interview how television changed everything...

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Video of JFK's Bodyguards in Dallas Being Ordered to Stand Down
(1 comments) This video shows the Secret Service officer ordering JFK's bodyguards away from JFK before entering the Grassy Knolls area where he gets shot.

Saturday, April 5, 2008
CLINTONS REPORT $109.2 MILLION IN INCOME OVER 7 YEARS
Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign has released her 2000-2006 joint tax returns, showing $109.2 million in income over the last seven years. In 2000, when the Clintons last made their returns public, they reported an adjusted gross income of $416,039. Since then, Bill Clinton alone has made $82 million from just his speech income ($51.85 million) and payments (totaling $29.6 million) from his two books.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Randi Rhodes: We Believe VIDEO
(3 comments) 37 min. Video: Randi Rhodes, who was suspended by Air America for saying something "unacceptable" about Hillary Clinton, spoke about what "We Believe". It's an excellent list of progressive values.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
A Message From John Cleese
(17 comments) To the citizens of the United States of America: In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).

Saturday, March 22, 2008
McCain Spiritual Guide Accused Gov't Of Enabling 'Black Genocide'
This past week, Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright has come under heavy fire in part over comments that suggested the U.S. government had introduced AIDS into black communities. But it turns out he's not the only religious confidant to a presidential candidate who thinks the state has targeted black populations with death and disease.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
"Characteristics" by Thomas Carlyle
1831 article: The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.

Monday, March 10, 2008
New Book by NY Times Reporter: They Knew, But Did Nothing
A March 8 headline reads "They knew, but did nothing," referring to Bush and Condoleezza Rice. According to a preface to the article: "In this exclusive extract from his new book, Philip Shenon uncovers how the White House tried to hide the truth of its ineptitude leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks."

Friday, March 7, 2008
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn: A World Split Apart -- Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978
The humanistic way of thinking, which had proclaimed itself our guide, did not admit the existence of intrinsic evil in man, nor did it see any task higher than the attainment of happiness on earth. It started modern Western civilization on the dangerous trend of worshiping man and his material needs... as if human life did not have any higher meaning. Thus gaps were left open for evil, and its drafts blow freely today.

Friday, March 7, 2008
Newsweek: Hillary's New Math Problem
Projecting popular votes precisely is impossible because there's no way to calculate turnout. But Clinton would likely need do-overs in Michigan and Florida (whose January primaries didn't count because they broke Democratic Party rules). But even this probably wouldn't give her the necessary popular-vote margins.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Aldous Huxley's Final Essay: Shakespeare and Religion
"A name that is a household word, and a word that is on everybody's lips. How simple and straightforward! But then the inquiring mind starts to ask questions. Who precisely was Shakespeare? And what are the sorts of phenomena to which we apply the words religion and religious? Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still."

Thursday, March 6, 2008
"Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Obama almost as big with GOP as McCain
The survey determined that a quarter of self-identified Republicans rated Mr. McCain most likable, but nearly as many - 23 percent - chose Mr. Obama as most likable. And among all adults surveyed, Mr. Obama was rated likable by more people than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mr. McCain combined, underscoring the Illinois senator's appeal to voters across the political spectrum.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Newsweek: Hillary's Math Problem. She could win 16 straight and still lose.
(1 comments) I'm no good at math either, but with the help of Slate's Delegate Calculator I've scoped out the rest of the primaries, and even if you assume huge Hillary wins from here on out, the numbers don't look good for Clinton. In order to show how deep a hole she's in, I've given her the benefit of the doubt every week for the rest of the primaries.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Marc Cooper: It's 3:00 AM and Hillary is Dreaming
(1 comments) For two or three days, the Clinton campaign will spin itself -and the media--silly, breathlessly celebrating her overwhelming victories in Rhode Island and Ohio and her squeaker in Texas. After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold... There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically

Monday, March 3, 2008
Propoganda in a Democratic Society
To post-Freudian ears, this kind of language seems touchingly quaint and ingenuous. Human beings are a good deal less rational and innately just than the optimists of the eighteenth century supposed. On the other hand they are neither so morally blind nor so hopelessly unreasonable as the pessimists of the twentienth would have us believe.